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Rubio hopes to pass DREAM Act alternative by end of summer

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) aims to have his alternative to
the DREAM Act proposal on paper in the next few weeks and passed by the end of
the summer.

"Our goal is to pass something this summer in time for
kids who plan to go to school this fall," Rubio press secretary Alex Conant
said Monday.

Rubio's proposal would provide non-immigrant visas to
illegal immigrants' children who attend college or serve in the military.

"So just like lots of people come to the United States
on work visas or on student visas or tourism visas or whatever, this would be a
non-immigrant visa, so it would be a temporary one," Conant said. "It
wouldn't be permanent. But the intent here is if they choose to remain in the United States
permanently that they could apply for permanent residence just like any other
immigrant would."

Rubio's proposal is an alternative to the Democrat-backed
DREAM Act, sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), which would grant legal
status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. when they were young and then
go to college or serve in the military.

Conant said Rubio's legislation would not mean the
immigrants would be deported after their visa runs out.

"They could apply for permanent residence after a
certain amount of time without having to return to their country of origin,"
Conant said. "They'd be like any other immigrant except that they could
wait while they're in the United
States. The Democrats' DREAM Act doesn't
have them leaving the country but, as I said, it creates a special pathway for
them."

Rubio's office does not yet have an estimate on how many new
visas would be issued under the proposal. Conant said it depends on what the
qualifying age for the visas in the legislation will be.

A day earlier, Rubio defended the proposal against criticism
that it was a form of amnesty.

"We use the existing immigration system to deal with a
humanitarian issue. And that is these children who entered this country
illegally or have overstayed visas illegally, through no fault of their
own," Rubio said on Fox News Sunday. "These are children, they follow
their parents. The parents put them in this predicament."